first off I’m not going to talk about the mess we’re in and how we have to work out a completely different scenario.  

Let me tell you about today.  of course we were still up for the ceasefire and even though we weren’t mentioned in it we knew it would change our lives.  

But we couldn’t do anything – there was nothing to do.  And we decided to give up – and revel in our helplesness.  We took our first bath, walked around with no shoes,  took a nap, went walking along the beach (along with half the city), took another nap and discovered that we’ve been missing far too much sleep.

I didn’t turn the news off fast enough and heard we’re bombing Hizballah like crazy. 

For years I have been writing about people in Lebanon, helpless like we are now, and now my feelings for them surged.  But then my numerous friends  up north who have gone without sleep, without work, without school, without bathing.. for months… reminded me.  

How terrible to turn off the news and not think, but how wonderful not to think for one whole day.